Brimmer Head Farmhouse with Adjoining Farm Building is a Grade I listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. A 1574 and 1870 Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Brimmer Head Farmhouse with Adjoining Farm Building
- WRENN ID
- upper-column-hyssop
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1974
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Brimmer Head Farmhouse with Adjoining Farm Building, LA22 9QL
- OS grid reference
- NY 324 084
- Coordinates
- 54.46718, -3.04361
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brimmer Head Farmhouse, dating from 1574 and 1870, is reputedly the oldest house in Grasmere. It is constructed of white-washed stone rubble with a slate roof and has two storeys. An extension was added in 1870, featuring a bay window. The front of the house has a central door, two windows on the ground floor, and three above, all with wooden mullions, along with two small gablets over the upper windows. To the right, there is an adjoining farm building under the same roof, which includes shippons below and a loft above. Traces of original external stairs can still be seen. Inside, the kitchen features very low ceiling beams and oak panelling. The stairs date from the mid-17th century and include treads and panelling, along with turned balusters marked with Roman numerals. There is a blocked old window visible inside, and an oak chest dated 1637. An old ladder remains in the original 16th-century kitchen.
Local climate
Brimmer Head Farmhouse with Adjoining Farm Building sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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